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While Halberstam nicely wraps up the stories of the characters he has been following throughout the book in the final chapter, the ending still seems somewhat abrupt. After explaining in exhaustive detail the course of American foreign policy—and domestic presidential politics—over the past decade, he is content to devote his final page to a rushed rundown of President George W. Bush’s first few months in office. The conclusion is not so much an ending as an added segment in a continuing story, but it has, in the aftermath of Sept...
What's the state of aggression these days? The abrupt departure of Lucent's Deborah (Hurricane Debby) Hopkins touched off the usual fulminations: that aggressiveness, which is rewarded in men, is punished in women. No question, gender unfairness still operates. But more to the point, aggressiveness as a trait, in men or women, is less in vogue. Period. If you think of it as a stock, "its value has been diluted," says Patrick Wright, chairman of the human-resource-studies department at Cornell...
...performed in speakeasies and brothels, he plays for an audience that's out for a good time. Like the early novelists, his primary source material is in the drift heaps of mass culture. But from those things he produces work that's not just enjoyable but also edifying: his abrupt couplings of borrowed sound--a riff sampled off an old 45, a scrap of dialogue from an old movie--point us to connections we've never made before...
...plans to step down. It was not until late last week that Freeh told his inner circle and Ashcroft he intended to make his farewell to the staff on Friday. By that time, according to FBI sources, Pickard was taking a long postponed holiday with his wife. Freeh's abrupt announcement forced Pickard to disrupt his leave...
...taking pains to get its story straight. At a meeting in economic adviser Larry Lindsey's office, aides were told to use the poll-approved "price caps" in place of the harsher "price controls." Republicans on Capitol Hill are thumbing through their thesauruses for other ways to describe the abrupt change of course. To some, the idea of telling their allies in the energy industry to give back their "unearned enrichment" seems more palatable than slapping them for "price gouging." And for those who find "caps" too strong to take, there's always "market mitigation...